Jay-Z Partnering With The NFL For Social Justice

[Dwayne]

niggas still think jayz success is their success huh?

jayz has been wealthy for over 20yrs and yall still think he has more in common with you than white trump donors like robert kraft??? lmaooooo

Is your success my success?

 

[StringerBell]

Reid rips Jay-Z over Kap remarks, deal with NFL

Panthers safety Eric Reid continued to be critical of Jay-Z on Friday, saying it was "asinine" of him to say "we've moved past kneeling" and calling his partnership with the NFL a "money move."

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Reid rips Jay-Z over Kap remarks, deal with NFL


CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Carolina Panthers safety Eric Reid on Friday blasted rapper Jay-Z for suggesting "we've moved past kneeling" during the national anthem as a protest against social injustice.

Reid also suggested that Jay-Z's new partnership with the NFL to help with entertainment and social justice is a "money move" that undercuts former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who has been without an NFL job since the 2016 season, when he and Reid began kneeling to protest police brutality and social injustice.

Reid, who made his remarks while wearing a black No. 7 Kaepernick jersey with "#IMWITHKAP" on the front, kneeled during the anthem before Friday night's preseason game against Buffalo, just as he has before every game since he joined Carolina last season.

"For one, when has Jay-Z ever taken a knee to come out and tell us that we're past kneeling?" Reid said. "Yes, he's done a lot of great work, a lot of great social justice work.

"But for you to get paid to go into an NFL press conference and say that we're past kneeling? Again, asinine. Players Coalition 2.0, he got paid to take the bullets he's taking now because we're not having it."

Reid has been hammering Jay-Z on Twitter since the partnership with the league was announced earlier in the week.

Responding to one tweet, Reid wrote: "You & some others seem to misunderstand that we had no beef with the NFL until they started perpetuating the systemic oppression that we are fighting by blackballing Colin and then me. Nah I won't quit playing but I will be a royal pain in the NFL's a** for acting like they care about people of color by forming numerous disingenuous partnerships to address social injustice while collectively blackballing Colin, the person who brought oppression and social injustice to the forefront of the NFL platform."

Reid said the NFL is hiding behind Jay-Z's "black face" with the new deal.

"The [injustice] that's happened to Colin, they get to say, 'Look, we care about social justice, we care about the black community because we're with Jay-Z,'" Reid said. "Jay-Z is doing the work for them. We all know that it's unjust that Colin isn't in an NFL locker room, the way he lost his job. But they get to pretend they care about social justice."

Within the past two years, both Reid and Kaepernick filed grievances against the league through the National Football League Players Association, alleging collusion among league owners to deny them jobs.

In February, it was announced that both players had reached a settlement with the NFL. Terms were not disclosed.

The Panthers signed Reid to a one-year deal late last September with the approval of new owner David Tepper, a move most in the organization thought never would have happened under former owner Jerry Richardson. Reid, 27, got a three-year, $22 million deal this past offseason.

Reid has continued to kneel during the anthem and has remained outspoken on social injustice. He waged a battle with the Players Coalition after it received about $89 million from the league for efforts and programs to combat social inequity.

Reid called Philadelphia safety Malcolm Jenkins, a co-founder of the coalition, a "sellout" for the deal following the Panthers' game last season against the Philadelphia Eagles.

"I could be completely wrong, but since the $89 million announcement with the Players Coalition, what's come of that?" Reid said Friday. "We get to pretend we care about social justice. We get to pretend we care about the black community, and we get to hide behind Malcolm Jenkins' face, and we get to hide behind Jay-Z's face and not do anything."

Asked if it would be better if Kaepernick had a seat at the table in all of this, Reid said, "It would be better if Colin had a job.''

Reid said he has lobbied for Tepper to hire Kaepernick.

"It's the same thing everybody says: 'We have a quarterback. We have a backup,'" Reid said.

After watching Carolina backups Kyle Allen and Will Grier struggle in a 27-14 loss to Buffalo, Reid was asked if Kaepernick would be a good candidate to back up starter Cam Newton.

"Colin can help every NFL team, first and foremost," Reid said. "We did not play our best football tonight. So I'm not going to throw our guys under the bus and say they should lose their jobs. We all played terrible today. But Colin can help out every NFL team."

Reid said the window for Kaepernick, 31, to get an NFL job is shrinking, and the move by the NFL to partner with Jay-Z fits the pattern he has observed over the past year.

"Jay-Z made a money move," Reid said. "He's capitalized on this situation. Nobody to my knowledge talked about social justice before Colin started protesting. That was not a topic of the NFL off the field. For Jay-Z to come in and partner to address social justice, do it behind Colin's back, get paid to do it ... I don't have words."

 

[Race Jones]

yet you come in here calling people dickhead vs having an adult conversation and debating your stance?


if someone doesnt agree....you spew hate and anger.

yes, angry woman.

I dont need yall to agree, I need yall to think.

 

[Dwayne]

Reid rips Jay-Z over Kap remarks, deal with NFL

Panthers safety Eric Reid continued to be critical of Jay-Z on Friday, saying it was "asinine" of him to say "we've moved past kneeling" and calling his partnership with the NFL a "money move."

www.espn.com

This quote below let’s me know this nigga just say things and does no research or reach out to any of the players involved.

"I could be completely wrong, but since the $89 million announcement with the Players Coalition, what's come of that?" Reid said Friday. "We get to pretend we care about social justice. We get to pretend we care about the black community, and we get to hide behind Malcolm Jenkins' face, and we get to hide behi

 

[Playmaker88]

You noticed that too? They'll never admit it though.

Name names

 

[Playmaker88]

Thread .

 

[GO843]

hov couldnt even give kaep a simple heads up on a deal hes been brokering for close to a year but niggas think he has enough respect for him to sign him?????

yall really live in a world of fantasy football.

The bolded, along with Jay supposedly telling his other peers not to do business with the NFL...Is fuck shit on Jay part...

...Taking a settlement in the collusion case and then still wanting to play in the league is fuck shit on Colin part...

...Bashing Jay for working with the organization that kept her man unemployed but supporting her man seeking employment with said organization is fuck shit on Nessa's part...

...Calling Jay diabolical while continuing to play for the league that clearly and unapologetically black balled your "friend" for making a statement against injustice is fuck shit on Eric Reid part...

...All of them are on fuck shit....And no amount of working with the NFL is gonna "fix" anything important for Black people in this country as a whole...And although I personally haven't watched an NFL game since 2016...Protesting and boycotting that shit ain really healing the hood and breaking the chains either...

 

[Dwayne]

Thread .

Ppl should have voted the right ppl in offices across the US

Maybe white supremacy would have taken a hit instead of being placed more places of the government that 100% will fuck over us.

For that don’t see all the things that ppl been doing to get changes made by everybody from Kaep to Jay to grassroots programs and even that Cac Kraft is just willfully ignorant.

Don’t ignore the progress just because it didn’t happen at one time.

 

[ChicagoFigure]

Its literally been less than a week since the announcement whats supposed to have happened by now?

 

[SeaSnake]

 

[Rubato]

niggas still think jayz success is their success huh?

jayz has been wealthy for over 20yrs and yall still think he has more in common with you than white trump donors like robert kraft??? lmaooooo

If his success ain’t ours then neither is Kaep’s failure

 

[Race Jones]

@OhMars you read my mind perfectly with a post of yours



I wonder what the reaction would be if it was another rich famous black person....




Jay for glaringly obvious reasons gets a whole lot of reasonable doubt amongst his core fans

jay gets resonasable doubt because in the eyes of many, hes one of the few that has “beat the system” without losing his cultural ties to Black ppl


folks know in order to sell out you have to assimilate into mainstream society by changing the way you talk (kanye for example) changing the way you dress (michael jordan and them godawful boot cut jeans), changing the way you behave all together and jayz hasnt done that outwardely (hence the loc bob and his philanthropy work)

maintaing an outward appearance that he is still connected to the community has allowed jay to be a powerful symbol for a lot of Black folxs who want to "make it" in the world w/o giving up their cultural background. (the majority of us tbh)

problem is, jayz hasnt changed the system, he has become a spokesperson for it. the ruling class, who I think a lot of you feel are dumb but are actually very very smart, (how has white ppl been able to thrive for all these years, they werent playing with legos until jayz showed up thats for sure) yt ppl know good and well what power jayz holds in delivering messsages to Black ppl. its no different than getting Al sharpton to lul us back to sleep after the latest cop shooting.

jayz was right when he said the nfl needs me, because in all honesty they do. the nfl deadass needs these symbolic resources now more than ever before especially with the worsening material conditions for poor and working-class people. not to mention the decline in viewership and the shrinking artist pool for their shows.

reality is access to certain spaces change you. especially if you’re already walking into those spaces with the mindset that to be free is to have that which your oppressors have.

 

[Rubato]

hov couldnt even give kaep a simple heads up on a deal hes been brokering for close to a year but niggas think he has enough respect for him to sign him?????

yall really live in a world of fantasy football.

All that matters is the end result. If he doesn’t end up signing him then we can revisit this.

 

[SeaSnake]

I'm late. Why is it that the popular black man always gotta help the rich white man fix his image amongst black people as opposed to the rich white man you know uhh not being racist and forwarding oppression of minorities.

Like do you want to solve the problem or give it a good look?

Too often niggas with real influence try to help a"fix" system that just isn't for us and never will be. It's time to destroy this shit. He shouldn't be fucking with them period imo. The NFL basically paying Jay-z to be a face of some shit that niggas already doing and that NFL should be doing more of off gp. They just putting a shiny gold sticker on it.

"Here nigger go fix this and make us look good, before the rest of these niggers really revolt."

"Alright boss"

Hyperbole but still...

Shit smells wack to me. If I'm wrong I'll gladly eat that shit.

I rarely agree with this nigga but I can’t dispute this shit

 

[Race Jones]

If his success ain’t ours then neither is Kaep’s failure

Kaeps failure?

 

[Race Jones]

All that matters is the end result. If he doesn’t end up signing him then we can revisit this.

I dont care about Kaep being signed
Kaep already sold himself to Nike.

 

[Race Jones]

The bolded, along with Jay supposedly telling his other peers not to do business with the NFL...Is fuck shit on Jay part...

...Taking a settlement in the collusion case and then still wanting to play in the league is fuck shit on Colin part...

...Bashing Jay for working with the organization that kept her man unemployed but supporting her man seeking employment with said organization is fuck shit on Nessa's part...

...Calling Jay diabolical while continuing to play for the league that clearly and unapologetically black balled your "friend" for making a statement against injustice is fuck shit on Eric Reid part...

...All of them are on fuck shit....And no amount of working with the NFL is gonna "fix" anything important for Black people in this country as a whole...And although I personally haven't watched an NFL game since 2016...Protesting and boycotting that shit ain really healing the hood and breaking the chains either...

I agree with this 10 fold.

 

[Rubato]

Kaeps failure?

Yea I thought about that after I said it

Let’s say Kaep’s experience

But the point remains

 

[Race Jones]

What this sounds like to me... and correct me if I'm wrong is that... the ones who support this move have more faith in a blatantly racist organization to do right by us than we have in ourselves do to do right by ourselves and build our own the way we want to.

Correct me if I'm wrong...

BINGO!

 

[Race Jones]

Yea I thought about that after I said it

Let’s say Kaep’s experience

But the point remains

his experience is our experience tho. we have more in common with a nigga being Blackballed on his job for speaking aganist injustice than a Billionare brokering a deal with the employer.